"We don't want to create panic here but it is a serious situation because normally you would need to have a guaranteed amount of water circulated in those reactors. "Certainly there is a danger, perhaps in a few weeks or a month, but something needs to be done," said Dr Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In a worst case scenario, without cooling "you would be risking a nuclear meltdown in there with tragic ecological consequences", he said. Rafael Grossi has told Sky News there "is a risk" the facility could be left without "essential" water needed to cool its six reactors, which is supplied by the Kakhovka reservoir and ponds. More on the Zaporizhzhia power plant now, as the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog warns the burst Kakhovka dam poses "a danger" to Europe's largest nuclear plant. Moscow controls the east bank of the Dnipro while Ukrainian forces are deployed on its right bank. Nor did the dam's destruction substantially shorten Russian lines, he added, and flooding would probably destroy the first line of Russia's defensive entrenchments.
The probability of Ukraine attempting a risk cross-river operation was always low and there was "no evidence" such a plan was in place, he said. "I doubt it will have a significant impact on Ukrainian military operations," said Mr Kofman, of the US-based CNA think tank. Michael Kofman, an expert on the Russian military, was sceptical about Mr Saldo's assessment. "It will be impossible for them to get through via the Kakhovka reservoir if they try." While blaming Ukraine for the disaster, he said: "Our armed forces now have an open space in front of them across which they can see who is trying to cross the Dnipro River and how. Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed governor of occupied Kherson, said the flooding "has worked out in a way that is operationally and tactically in favour of Russian forces".
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